In the Academy Award for Best Film "Oppenheimer", Robert Downey Jr. played the role of Louis Strauss and won the honorary title of Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards.
On April 14, Robert Downey Jr. brought a new work "The Sympathizer", this time completely disregarding the image, and also played a supporting role, once again presented a wonderful performance.
"The Sympathizer" is a new work produced by HBO, directed by Park Chan-wook, Fernando Meryls, Mark Murden, Robert Downey Jr., Hou Xuande, Wu Sandra , Fred Nguyen, Duan Le, Nguyen Gao Qi Yuan, Qiao Zheng, Scott Lee, etc., is a limited drama with a war thriller theme.
Based on Nguyen Thanh Viet's Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name, "The Sympathizer" has a total of 7 episodes, with the first episode airing on April 14, with one episode updated every week.
On the IMDB platform, the score of the first episode of "Sympathizer" soared directly to 9.1 points, and it gained an excellent reputation.
At the beginning of the first episode, the protagonist Viet Nam Tsai is imprisoned, and although he claims that all his efforts are to promote the cause, he is still asked by an officer to rewrite the confession and confess that he must write down the details of the past clearly.
At the end of the first episode, he returned to the picture of Vietnamese Tsai being imprisoned, at this time, he looked at the ceiling blankly, grief-stricken, and the ups and downs of his life made him feel infinitely emotional.
The story begins in 1975, Viet Nam Tsai is a South Vietnamese officer who is valued by the generals, but in fact he is a spy who lurks for the cause of the motherland.
On the eve of the imminent victory, Viet Tsai was given an important and difficult task to get him a complete list of the Saigon secret police.
With his excellent business ability, Viet Nam Tsai successfully completed the mission, but when he handed over the list to a female spy, the female spy was exposed and caught, and it was Viet Nam Tsai who was responsible for the investigation and interrogation.
Watching his compatriots being tortured and destroyed, Viet Nai Tsai had mixed feelings in his heart, but he couldn't expose himself, so he could only restrain his emotions and continue to fight for the tiger.
Soon after, Saigon was breached, and the general was busy preparing planes to leave Saigon for the United States, while Viet Tsai thought that he could stay and finally fight for the great cause of the motherland.
But unexpectedly, his connector, who is also his good brother Brother Beard, asked him to follow the general to the United States, monitor the general's every move, and continue to be a good spy.
Of course, Vietnam Tsai didn't want to go to the United States, he had been a spy for three and a half years, and now victory was in sight, so he continued to be a spy, but Brother Hu Zi told him that there was no room for negotiation at all, and told him a cruel truth: the motherland is actually not so good.
In Brother Hu's view, going to the United States is beneficial to Vietnam, but the world is unpredictable, and this mission planted the seeds of fate for his later tragedy.
The U.S. troops retreated, the airport was bombed, and when Viet Nam Tsai ran to the plane with his good friend Da Zhuang's family, he experienced nine deaths, and Da Zhuang's wife was killed.
The reason why "The Sympathizer" is called "The Sympathizer" is because the protagonist Viet Nam Tsai is a sympathizer, he has a complex multifaceted nature, he sympathizes with his compatriots, sympathizes with the comrades of North Vietnam, sympathizes with the soldiers of South Vietnam, and also sympathizes with Vietnamese refugees living in the United States.